People often expect sadness to be logical, to come with an explanation. But what if it doesn’t? What if it’s just part of being human—part of being deeply alive? Sadness has been a strong emotion in my life since I was very young. I’m more comfortable with it than I am with happiness.
I don’t feel I need to justify my feelings to anyone, not even myself. Sometimes, the most healing thing I can do is acknowledge the ache without trying to fix it right away.
For now, I’m simply letting it be. Sitting with it. Breathing through it. And trusting that my soul knows how to carry it. There are times when I have named my sadness by another name. I have called it depression. When I examine that title, it doesn’t feel true. I have the mental ability to act happy. But sadness often sneaks in and takes its comfortable place deep inside my myriad of emotions.
I feel much more real when I am serious and sad. I don’t want to feel silly or act crazy. It doesn’t match my personality.
It’s like hearing a sad song in the distance, one you don’t remember learning, but somehow you know all the words. It plays quietly in the background of your life. You don’t know where it came from, but it feels like it belongs to you and is etched into your heart.
That’s the kind of sadness I’m talking about. It doesn’t come from a recent loss or an obvious wound. It just is. Familiar. Almost sacred. Like an old friend you don’t see often, but still carry in your chest.
That’s the kind of sadness I’ve been feeling. Out of place, and yet not out of place at all. Like it doesn’t make sense and still… it does.
I’m learning not to fight it. Just to notice it, breathe with it, and let it be part of my story without rushing it away.
So tonight, I won’t try to outshine the sadness. I’ll just keep walking with it, slowly, honestly, and wholeheartedly. And maybe, that’s enough.
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